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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 823687" data-attributes="member: 53455">The Mont Blanc is 4810 meters highThe 18-karat gold nib of my Montblanc Meisterstück fountain pen. I bought it in the 1980s when I was a young lawyer. It was one of the trappings you were supposed to sport back then, and I always wrote with fountain pens anyway, since high school. Shortly after the purchase, it fell down on a marble fireplace in my office and the nib had to be replaced, as well as part of the Bakelite body that had cracked. Since those tempestuous beginnings, we have lived happily together and plan to continue for as long as possible.And yes, the “4810” marking on the nib refers to the altitude of the Mont Blanc in the French Alps, the highest summit in all of Europe. For a long time, that marking used to read “4807”, which was the official altitude of the mountain. It is the figure we all learned in school as we grew up. Then with better instruments, the altitude was revised to 4810, and now I hear it is calculated each year (really, some people have entirely too much free time on their hands... or else they are paid too much...!), and the latest figure is a little bit less than 4809 meters... It is all terribly important to know, of course.I see from my notes that this was a 10:1 macro taken with a Micro-Nikkor 105mm and the bellows, probably almost fully extended. I focus-stacked no less than 55 photos, with manual adjustments between each using the focusing rail I speak about in the previous upload above.Nikon Z7, Micro-Nikkor 105mm ƒ/2.8 G VR macro lens, FTZ adapter, Novoflex BALPRO T/S bellows. Gitzo tripod, Arca-Swiss Cube C1 geared head. 55-exposure stack processed with Helicon Focus. Artificial lighting.[ATTACH=full]409798[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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